Welcome! The Lied, Art Song, and Choral Texts Archive is a collection of
texts used in 118,766 Lieder and other classical art songs
(Kunstlieder, mélodies, canzoni, романсы, canciones, liederen, canções, sånger, laulua, písně, piosenki, etc.) as well as in many
choral works and other types of classical vocal pieces.
The archive indexes 72,989 texts with 16,384
translations to English, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and others.
The website has frequent updates.
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Dear visitors,
This project, begun in 1995, receives no public funding.
The REC Music Foundation has generously
given me server-space, but I have many costs in
maintaining and expanding the website. So if you find
the information here useful,
please consider making a donation. Your gift is greatly appreciated!
- Emily Ezust
I also have a wishlist at Amazon.ca.
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Where to start?
The Introduction is a good place, or the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). You can also visit us on facebook.
You can browse the collection by using the indexes by composer, text poet or author,
first line, title, or language; or you can search for words or phrases. If you can't
find what you're looking for, please feel free to make a request for the wishlist.
The following links to selected song texts will give you an idea
of the type of information this website has to offer.
Be sure to read this
note about how to tell when a text shown is the sung text or the published
stand-alone text or both.
Be careful about copyrights. This archive contains both public-domain and copyright material, some of which may
not be reproduced unless permission is obtained first.
Note: leave out punctuation and diacritics (e.g., instead of ä use a, and use ss for ß)
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